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PlatformJun 02, 2026
CI/CD for Data Pipelines: The Production Guide
Data pipelines are stateful — software CI/CD patterns don't transfer cleanly. Schema validation, data quality gates, environment parity, and the 7-stage lifecycle that prevents 3 AM failures, with working dbt + Airflow + Great Expectations code.
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PlatformFeb 28, 2026
Snowflake vs BigQuery in 2026: A Cost Analysis
We ran the same workload — 8 TB scanned daily, mixed ad-hoc and scheduled queries, three BI tools — on both Snowflake and BigQuery for 30 days. The winner depends on something most comparisons get wrong.
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